[unixODBC-dev] unixODBC versus libiodbc: can they coexist?

Nick Gorham nick at lurcher.org
Fri Jun 5 18:05:45 BST 2009


Tom Lane wrote:
> A long time ago (apparently before 2000) somebody put "Conflicts: iodbc"
> into the Red Hat/Fedora specfile for unixODBC.  This indicates that the
> two packages are so incompatible it's not even safe to install them
> together.  I'm being asked why that is, and I have no idea.  Can anyone
> comment on whether such a restriction is really needed?
>
> 			regards, tom lane
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Well, the only possible problem I can see is that iODBC also installs a 
libodbc.so and a libodbcinst.so

-- 
Nick


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